Career advice in 2025.

instead, here are a few high-level prompts that might help you escape flatland. (as usual, the law of equal and opposite advice applies.)

• try lots of things.
  
  build stuff. research stuff. go to random talks. go to random societies. look at stuff that piques your interest, even if it seems weird or sus or irrelevant or illegible or unprestigious or u

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if your job is legible enough that people can make a dataset clearly pointing out what is right and what is wrong, you are at the highest risk for an AI model being “superhuman” at your job. It is even more risky if it is possible to articulate your thought process in a way that is verifiable.

Looking at this perspective, it makes more sense that c... See more

Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time nav... See more